A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. — J. R. R. Tolkien Friend Copy Share Image
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell — J. R. R. Tolkien Elves Copy Share Image
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. — J. R. R. Tolkien Corner Copy Share Image
Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's… — J. R. R. Tolkien Funny Copy Share Image
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! — J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom. — J. R. R. Tolkien Communication Copy Share Image
“Thorin spoke: "Let us try the door! he said. "I must feel the wind on my face soon or die.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in… — J. R. R. Tolkien Battle Copy Share Image
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise… — J. R. R. Tolkien Chance Copy Share Image
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we… — J. R. R. Tolkien Beast Copy Share Image
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice… — J. R. R. Tolkien Advice Copy Share Image
But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea… — J. R. R. Tolkien Darkness Copy Share Image
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Age Copy Share Image
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in… — J. R. R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep… — J. R. R. Tolkien Chance Copy Share Image
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“They shouldered their packs and took up their sticks, and walked round the corner to the west side of Bag End. 'Good-bye!'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Gardening Copy Share Image
If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just… — J. R. R. Tolkien Age Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — J. R. R. Tolkien Beast Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Ancient Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
